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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Employers will also be required to submit reports to the airport on the vaccine status of their workforce. Failure to comply could result in fines, the mayor’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airport, which offers free vaccines at its on-site medical clinic, has been considering the requirement for some time, said Doug Yakel, an SFO spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the first, but I doubt we’ll be the last,” he said. “We’ve really been watching what’s been going on in the air travel industry, and we’ve seen already airlines making it mandatory for their workforce. We see that continuing to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 46,000 people normally work at the airport, Yakel said, although he noted the number is lower now because of the ongoing pandemic. He said most employees have already been vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2020, SFO became the first U.S. airport to offer on-site rapid testing for the virus, and now administers tests to an average of 500 travelers a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really throughout the pandemic, we have been evolving our airport to keep employees and keep customers safe,” Yakel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mandate comes a day after the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889103/white-house-to-lift-travel-restrictions-into-u-s-for-vaccinated-foreign-nationals\">announced plans to ease travel restrictions\u003c/a> on foreign nationals flying to the U.S., who beginning in early November, will be allowed to enter the country after showing proof of vaccination and negative test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is already requiring nearly all of its roughly 35,000 city workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/world/san-francisco-vaccine-mandate.html\">to be fully vaccinated\u003c/a>, or risk losing their jobs, a mandate it announced in June — among the first major U.S. cities to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first year of the pandemic, SFO lost more passengers than any other major U.S. airport, according to an April \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Why-SFO-is-seeing-a-slower-recovery-than-other-16131017.php\">San Francisco Chronicle analysis\u003c/a> of Transportation Security Administration data. That drop was largely driven by a sharp decline in international travel, the analysis found. The data also showed the airport was still — in April — experiencing a slower-than-average recovery compared to other airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2, the union representing thousands of food-service workers at SFO — including concessions workers in the terminal and airline catering workers — welcomed Tuesday’s announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our union was the single union most affected by lockdown layoffs. At one point, 98% of our members [nationally] were laid off,” said Ted Waechter, a Unite Here spokesperson. He added that nearly all members of the union are front-line workers in the tourism and hospitality industry, and the vast majority are vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight to get back to work, to get people back on the job with their wages and health insurance, we really see a safe travel experience and a vaccination requirement as critical to making sure that we can come back stronger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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However, it’s unclear where many of the more than 1,500 people who have left hotels over the course of the program have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Advocates for people experiencing homeless argue that the city can afford to keep the hotels open longer, pointing to the Biden administration’s recent commitment to reimburse cities for certain COVID-19-related expenses, including hotel rooms, through the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cohen said San Francisco’s program is also reliant on the city’s general fund, which precludes keeping the hotels open past next June. The city, she added, is closing the hotels gradually to avoid “a humanitarian and logistical nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes significant city and nonprofit staffing to move people from the hotels into housing,” Cohen said. “It’s not a quick process. And so we really need to have the capacity and the workers to do this process. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting “from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,” said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally’s co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]‘At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States’ struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has “been a beam of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans “is something that’s really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. “I’m Afghan myself, and I’m out here to support my people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to continue to have hope,” she added. “I’m very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. But clearly, that’s too much to ask when you’re an Afghan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghanistan-evacuation-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From State Senator Alex Padilla’s office\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: If you or your immediate family need assistance evacuating or immigrating from Afghanistan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/afghan-evacuation-form/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please complete this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any questions about how to complete the above form, please email: afg-evac@padilla.senate.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/afghanistan-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>From Rep. Barbara Lee’s office\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: If you or a loved one needs help evacuating Afghanistan or needs assistance regarding a special immigrant visa or an immigrant visa, please see the resources below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can call the Department of State hotline for Afghanistan evacuation at:\u003cbr>\n(888) 407-4747 (domestic calls)\u003cbr>\n(202) 501-4444 (overseas calls)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotline is open from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need assistance with a casework issue related to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, email: lee.afghanistaninquiries@mail.house.gov\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please include in your email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Name(s) of every individual that are you seeking assistance for\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A description of the issue\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your contact information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The best time of day to reach you\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes additional reporting from The Associated Press and NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"disqusTitle": "‘This Is Who He Is’: Mara Reinhardt Reveals Extent of Alleged Family Abuse by Prominent SF Politico Nate Ballard",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse toward women and children and disturbing language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ver since former spokesperson-for-hire Nate Ballard's arrest in October last year, for allegedly assaulting his wife and attempting to smother his child with a pillow in an incident at a Napa resort, the public relations expert has done what he does best:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talked to media. He's talked to the public. He's talked to his allies in San Francisco government. In every case, Ballard — who served as a top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom while Newsom was mayor of San Francisco — has characterized the event as a misunderstanding brought on by grief and alcohol use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the legal saga comes to a close nearly a year later, Ballard's wife Mara Reinhardt finally told her side of the harrowing tale in public: She says Ballard abused her and their children for years, subjecting them to psychological torment. Ballard was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Former-Newsom-aide-sentenced-to-probation-in-16398787.php\">sentenced to probation Thursday\u003c/a> after striking a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mara Reinhardt\"]'I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me. I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a [PR] expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.'[/pullquote]Reinhardt's victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court last week, came after a long list of prominent, politically connected San Franciscans — including the head of a domestic violence shelter and a former city police chief — had continued to back Ballard in a separate but related family court proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reinhardt, who filed for divorce shortly after the Napa incident and who agreed to the plea deal — which calls for Ballard to stay away from their two young children for six years — says he is too dangerous to be near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who know me, you know that being up here today is one of the most frightening things I have ever done,\" Reinhardt told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me,\" she said. \"I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a public relations expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a purpose in finally speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am here for our safety and for our protection from Nathan Ballard,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her version of events is dramatically different from Ballard's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard — the former press secretary for Newsom while he was mayor, a former San Francisco deputy city attorney and a former city police union spokesperson — has for months told his side of the story, featuring apologies and explanations that a long-running struggle with alcohol use disorder swayed his behavior. He even, at one point, claimed he fell asleep on his child, countering his wife's accusation that he grabbed a pillow and used his entire body's weight to smother their daughter's face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations made against me by Mara are mostly false, and the remainder are grossly exaggerated,\" Ballard told KQED on Tuesday, in a written statement. \"I never harmed my daughter, and I never would have agreed to any settlement that required me to say that I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I refuse to be sidelined by regrets,\" Ballard added. \"We all fall down sometimes. It is getting back up that matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His talk garnered goodwill from allies — including former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the executive director of domestic violence help organization La Casa de las Madres, Kathy Black — who sang his praises in a legal fashion, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filing attestations to his good character in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They repeatedly told the court they could not imagine him doing the things his wife claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All throughout, Reinhardt, 37, mostly kept her point of view between herself and law enforcement authorities. Reinhardt is a Pilates instructor — and, by her own admission, doesn't have the same skill with words as Ballard, who has made a living spinning stories to his clients' advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt broke her silence by recounting her version of events in the public statement she read aloud in court last Thursday. KQED obtained a transcript of her account, which was submitted to the court but is not a publicly available document. KQED verified the transcription's veracity with Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2,600-word statement, Reinhardt alleged Ballard isolated her from friends and family for years and had physically harmed their children before, to the point where they cower in fear when they see any black Tesla on the street, the same car he drives. Their daughter still wakes in the night confused and crying, and often says she cannot breathe at bedtime, Reinhardt said, indicating ongoing trauma from the pillow-smothering incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also alleges Ballard, who has made a career representing businesses like the NFL and the Golden State Warriors, made an anti-Black racist comment in the course of trying to control the clients he'd allow Reinhardt to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt declined to comment to KQED, instead opting to let her testimony stand for itself. The names of their children, ages 3 and 5, have been redacted by KQED from her testimony and will not be used, for their protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read Reinhardt's full victim impact statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Reinhardt recorded herself re-reading her victim impact statement, and shared that recording with KQED. KQED has bleeped out the moments where Reinhardt mentions her children's names. \u003cstrong>Warning: This recording contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse and disturbing language.\u003c/strong> Listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mara-reinhardt-reads-her-victim-impact-statement/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mara Reinhardt Reads Her Victim Impact Statement\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Skip to: Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not the first time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ballard's defense against Reinhardt's accusations boils down to this: He says the pillow-smothering incident was isolated, due to his alcohol use disorder and exacerbated by the death of his father, and that he is now in a recovery program to heal himself. He denies he assaulted his daughter. He submitted letters from various recovery program staff and logs of his time in such programs, and swore he would one day be a new man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public and to the Napa County court, Ballard has repeatedly denied his wife's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will say I am not proud of the way I conducted myself that evening. Mara and I both drank too much,\" Ballard told the court in filings. \"That said, I adamantly deny hurting [my daughter] that evening or at any previous time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am actively engaged in a daily program of recovery,\" he told KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in her statement, Reinhardt said the Oct. 17, 2020, incident was a clear attack, and that it wasn't the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dark moods were not \"an aberration, as he would have everyone believe,\" she said. His attacks, \"had nothing to do with his father or with alcohol.\" Reinhardt said Ballard would behave this way even when sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is who he is,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mara Reinhardt\"]'He told me I was a disgusting c*** and that training [pro athletes] would ruin his image. That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard allegedly cut Reinhardt off from friends and family. She said he \"isolated\" her, showing up unannounced when she was with friends or her sister and would \"stay until I left.\" At public events he would not allow her to go beyond his sight. Even when she went to the bathroom he would follow her and wait outside the door, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said Ballard also isolated her in regard to her career and their finances, having all financial correspondence sent to his office so she could not see it. She said he also dictated the clients she coached and forbade her to train professional athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me I was a disgusting cunt and that training them would ruin his image,\" she wrote. \"That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Ballard's career in public life involves attending parties with politicos, making face time with the wealthy and powerful. His website lists the Golden State Warriors, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.levisstadium.com/2016/02/super-bowl-50-becomes-most-watched-program-in-tv-history/\">Super Bowl 50 event hosted by the late Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/a>, and former Sen. John Kerry as past clients. He served on a board for \u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/\">The Representation Project\u003c/a>, started by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. As recently as last week he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Some-California-prison-workers-ordered-to-get-16401824.php\">quoted in a news story\u003c/a> on behalf of one of his clients, the California Correctional Peace Officer's Association, the union that represents state prison officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at San Francisco's frequent galas, balls and various shindigs that he made the connections that kept his name on the lips of the state's power players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt was told by Ballard she would need to attend these events regularly or \"suffer the consequences,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have to go and sing his praises only to come home [and] have him be angry and abusive,\" she said. \"He would try to make me [have] sex and if I refused, I was scared he would punish me or my kids. I would lock myself in their room to hide from Nate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life with Ballard was unpredictable, she told the court. She lived in fear of Nate's moods and \"wrath.\" He would also make comments about their daughter that Reinhardt described as \"disgusting and creepy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The men are going to love her,\" Reinhardt recounted Ballard saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left their home countless times fearing for her safety, and the safety of her children. She became numb to him, she said, and stayed in their marriage for fear of what he would do to their children if she ever were to leave. When their now 5-year-old daughter was 6 months old, Reinhardt said Ballard told her that if she left him, \"he would kill me and kill [our daughter].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that moment, I felt trapped,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11807639 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Narcissistic, sociopathic fury'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Until Ballard's sentencing last week, Reinhardt had never publicly spoken about the alleged assault of Oct. 17, 2020, nor of Ballard's public defense of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt and her children were staying at the Carneros Resort and Spa in Napa, and Ballard arrived a bit later the same day. \"He showed up with a look in his eye that I had seen many times before,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expected his behavior to escalate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt spent the afternoon and evening trying to calm Ballard down. He called her \"a cunt, a bitch, a whore as his words and body language became more vile, aggressive, erratic, and scary,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Reinhardt said, \"this was not an argument that got out of hand.\" Instead, it was one of his familiar and unprovoked rages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously said he fell asleep on top of his daughter, a claim he supports with a comment his daughter made to a Napa County detective that she thought she heard him snoring. Reinhardt countered that this story emerged only because she actively tried to shield her daughter from the truth by telling her that the attack was an instance of Ballard becoming sick with COVID, and that they stayed locked in a bedroom to \"keep away from his germs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what I told her to protect her and explain a big scary thing,\" she said. \"It's not because it was anywhere close to what she truly knew had happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Reinhardt said, what happened was this: Ballard, shouting and in a rage, shoved Reinhardt into a glass door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no doubt in my mind that in the final charge towards me, as he had his hands in the air aimed at my neck, that Nate would have killed me that night,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't finished. Next, Ballard, whom Reinhardt described as a strong, 200-plus-pound man, \"fortified by a narcissistic, sociopathic fury and an unprovoked, blind irrational rage I knew all too well,\" attacked their daughter, shouting and hurling profanities, calling their daughter a \"cunt and a bitch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt saw her daughter lying in bed, her arms flailing, as Ballard held a large pillow on top of her. He leaned on the pillow with his full weight, Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I didn't know was whether I would be able to pull him off of [my daughter] before she stopped breathing,\" Reinhardt said. \"He could have killed her and had I not been there, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said she used all of her strength to push Ballard off their daughter. They escaped to another bedroom where the other child, then 3 years old, was sleeping, and locked the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the arrival of police brought an end to that particular nightmare, the public relations barrage would soon begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nate Ballard\"]'If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements. But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF politicos stand up for Ballard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20190514173239/https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/inside-men\">A profile of Ballard in \"San Francisco\" magazine's \"Power Issue\"\u003c/a> from December 2016 described him as a \"preeminent media whisperer\" who represents a \"veritable Yellow Pages of powerful clients.\" He's frequently quoted by the press as an insider with intimate knowledge of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he represented when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his actions in October took a toll. In court documents, Ballard claims his $10 million public relations agency \"collapsed overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His clients? They \"fled,\" he told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his agency's collapse didn't stop him from tapping some of those friends in high places to help him. More than 40 friends (and some family) wrote mitigation letters in his defense, asking the family court for leniency. That proceeding was separate from the ongoing Napa County criminal court case, but was related as it dealt with the custody of their children, and was legally intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a personal level, I would say I know him very well and Nate has shown me that he is a good and decent human being,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">wrote Kathy Black\u003c/a>, the more-than-20-year executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence support group in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">The organization\u003c/a> provides a 24-hour hotline to domestic abuse survivors, domestic abuse prevention education, and long-term support services. The organization's stated mission is to \"stand for a safer San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her defense of Ballard, Black wrote that \"over that [sic] last two decades, Nate has become a trusted friend, strategist, and ally to La Casa,\" adding, \"While I cannot speak to this case and its very serious allegations, I just do not believe that it is in Nate's nature to hurt anyone — period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wrote in defense of Ballard, saying, \"In our many conversations about life, relationships, and family, what couldn't be any clearer is his love for his kids. He is a devoted father.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously represented the police officers' union as a spokesperson, defending Suhr's police force in the public sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added, \"I will not comment on Nate's current criminal case in your county as I know nothing more about it other that [sic] what I've read in the papers. I can and will say I don't believe for a minute that it is in Nate to ever hurt anyone; and it is inconceivable to me that he could ever hurt a child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate,\" Suhr wrote, \"is a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard's mitigation letters include other movers and shakers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11140354/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations\">Martin Halloran\u003c/a>, past president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mark-Farrell-says-brief-tenure-as-SF-mayor-will-12541019.php\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/sunday-best/breaking-barriers-for-prieto-its-all-about-hard-work/\">Ramona Prieto\u003c/a>, retired California Highway Patrol deputy commissioner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/former-supervisor-michela-alioto-pier-district-2\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-garvey-76033956/\">Erin Garvey\u003c/a>, senior director of operations communications at PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/people/tom-oconnor\">Tom O'Connor\u003c/a>, past president of San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/our-board/joanna-rees/\">Joanna Rees\u003c/a>, managing partner at market creation company West and board member of The Representation Project\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins, was a partner in a Danville law firm for 18 years and said she often represented wealthy and well-connected clients. Still, she told KQED, the level of support Ballard garnered from influential people, considering the allegations against him, was \"unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letters stink of cronyism and everything that is wrong with the 'rich white boy' politics of San Francisco,\" Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the verdict against Ballard, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind said it's common for high-profile abusers to use their prestige in the community to their advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuser uses their prominence to intimidate and further control their victims,\" Lind said. \"[T]hreatening to use their power to continue the abuse and assassination of character of the victims are features used to deflect personal responsibility and accountability for their wrongdoing. The Napa County District Attorney’s Office amplifies the voices of survivors, and this brave survivor refuses to be cowed by continued bullying or minimization of criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard told KQED on Tuesday he could have \"destroyed\" Reinhardt's credibility if he had not chosen to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements,\" Ballard wrote. \"But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing prominent people in power defend her former husband strikes fear in Reinhardt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate always makes sure that everyone knows that he is highly connected to powerful people: The Governor, The Vice President, various Congressmen and Women, Senators, Mayors, SF Police Chief, District Attorneys, many more people of influence in both the political and private world,\" Reinhardt said in her statement. \"He was written up as one of the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco. He never let me forget it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in order for Reinhardt to secure an agreement from Ballard to not see their children for six years, she agreed to withdraw a domestic violence restraining order she had filed after the assault, and to take the unusual step of sealing the declaration attached to the order's petition. Without the information from that declaration being in the public sphere, Ballard has more ability to control the narrative — a tactic Reinhardt says she knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to withdraw the restraining order and seal Reinhardt's declaration was \"totally motivated\" by Ballard's own desire to protect his image, Bevins alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Long after we leave here today,\" Reinhardt said, \"I know that Nate will spend his life trying to spin yet another story, to destroy me, the children, and most likely anyone associated with this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the family law court may consider allowing Ballard to have contact with his two young children again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>Read Mara Reinhardt's full victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court on Aug. 19:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"victim-impact-statement-redacted (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you been or are you being harmed by domestic violence? Find help via these resources, in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://centerfordomesticpeace.org/\">Center for Domestic Peace\u003c/a>: Call their 24/7 English-Spanish hotline at (415) 924-6616. Shelter requests are handled via this number, as are appointments for legal advocacy services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roclinic.org/\">Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic\u003c/a>: CROC provides free legal services to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors: (415) 969-6711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fvlc.org/\">Family Violence Law Center\u003c/a>: Call (800) 947-8301 for legal services as well as 24-hour crisis intervention and support.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">La Casa de las Madres\u003c/a>: For support, resources and safety planning, call their 24/7 hotline at (877) 503-1850. 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It is getting back up that matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His talk garnered goodwill from allies — including former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the executive director of domestic violence help organization La Casa de las Madres, Kathy Black — who sang his praises in a legal fashion, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filing attestations to his good character in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They repeatedly told the court they could not imagine him doing the things his wife claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All throughout, Reinhardt, 37, mostly kept her point of view between herself and law enforcement authorities. Reinhardt is a Pilates instructor — and, by her own admission, doesn't have the same skill with words as Ballard, who has made a living spinning stories to his clients' advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt broke her silence by recounting her version of events in the public statement she read aloud in court last Thursday. KQED obtained a transcript of her account, which was submitted to the court but is not a publicly available document. KQED verified the transcription's veracity with Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2,600-word statement, Reinhardt alleged Ballard isolated her from friends and family for years and had physically harmed their children before, to the point where they cower in fear when they see any black Tesla on the street, the same car he drives. Their daughter still wakes in the night confused and crying, and often says she cannot breathe at bedtime, Reinhardt said, indicating ongoing trauma from the pillow-smothering incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also alleges Ballard, who has made a career representing businesses like the NFL and the Golden State Warriors, made an anti-Black racist comment in the course of trying to control the clients he'd allow Reinhardt to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt declined to comment to KQED, instead opting to let her testimony stand for itself. The names of their children, ages 3 and 5, have been redacted by KQED from her testimony and will not be used, for their protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read Reinhardt's full victim impact statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Reinhardt recorded herself re-reading her victim impact statement, and shared that recording with KQED. KQED has bleeped out the moments where Reinhardt mentions her children's names. \u003cstrong>Warning: This recording contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse and disturbing language.\u003c/strong> Listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mara-reinhardt-reads-her-victim-impact-statement/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mara Reinhardt Reads Her Victim Impact Statement\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Skip to: Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not the first time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ballard's defense against Reinhardt's accusations boils down to this: He says the pillow-smothering incident was isolated, due to his alcohol use disorder and exacerbated by the death of his father, and that he is now in a recovery program to heal himself. 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More than 40 friends (and some family) wrote mitigation letters in his defense, asking the family court for leniency. That proceeding was separate from the ongoing Napa County criminal court case, but was related as it dealt with the custody of their children, and was legally intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a personal level, I would say I know him very well and Nate has shown me that he is a good and decent human being,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">wrote Kathy Black\u003c/a>, the more-than-20-year executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence support group in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">The organization\u003c/a> provides a 24-hour hotline to domestic abuse survivors, domestic abuse prevention education, and long-term support services. The organization's stated mission is to \"stand for a safer San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her defense of Ballard, Black wrote that \"over that [sic] last two decades, Nate has become a trusted friend, strategist, and ally to La Casa,\" adding, \"While I cannot speak to this case and its very serious allegations, I just do not believe that it is in Nate's nature to hurt anyone — period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wrote in defense of Ballard, saying, \"In our many conversations about life, relationships, and family, what couldn't be any clearer is his love for his kids. He is a devoted father.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously represented the police officers' union as a spokesperson, defending Suhr's police force in the public sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added, \"I will not comment on Nate's current criminal case in your county as I know nothing more about it other that [sic] what I've read in the papers. I can and will say I don't believe for a minute that it is in Nate to ever hurt anyone; and it is inconceivable to me that he could ever hurt a child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate,\" Suhr wrote, \"is a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard's mitigation letters include other movers and shakers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11140354/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations\">Martin Halloran\u003c/a>, past president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mark-Farrell-says-brief-tenure-as-SF-mayor-will-12541019.php\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/sunday-best/breaking-barriers-for-prieto-its-all-about-hard-work/\">Ramona Prieto\u003c/a>, retired California Highway Patrol deputy commissioner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/former-supervisor-michela-alioto-pier-district-2\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-garvey-76033956/\">Erin Garvey\u003c/a>, senior director of operations communications at PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/people/tom-oconnor\">Tom O'Connor\u003c/a>, past president of San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/our-board/joanna-rees/\">Joanna Rees\u003c/a>, managing partner at market creation company West and board member of The Representation Project\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins, was a partner in a Danville law firm for 18 years and said she often represented wealthy and well-connected clients. Still, she told KQED, the level of support Ballard garnered from influential people, considering the allegations against him, was \"unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letters stink of cronyism and everything that is wrong with the 'rich white boy' politics of San Francisco,\" Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the verdict against Ballard, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind said it's common for high-profile abusers to use their prestige in the community to their advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuser uses their prominence to intimidate and further control their victims,\" Lind said. \"[T]hreatening to use their power to continue the abuse and assassination of character of the victims are features used to deflect personal responsibility and accountability for their wrongdoing. The Napa County District Attorney’s Office amplifies the voices of survivors, and this brave survivor refuses to be cowed by continued bullying or minimization of criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard told KQED on Tuesday he could have \"destroyed\" Reinhardt's credibility if he had not chosen to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements,\" Ballard wrote. \"But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing prominent people in power defend her former husband strikes fear in Reinhardt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate always makes sure that everyone knows that he is highly connected to powerful people: The Governor, The Vice President, various Congressmen and Women, Senators, Mayors, SF Police Chief, District Attorneys, many more people of influence in both the political and private world,\" Reinhardt said in her statement. \"He was written up as one of the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco. He never let me forget it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in order for Reinhardt to secure an agreement from Ballard to not see their children for six years, she agreed to withdraw a domestic violence restraining order she had filed after the assault, and to take the unusual step of sealing the declaration attached to the order's petition. Without the information from that declaration being in the public sphere, Ballard has more ability to control the narrative — a tactic Reinhardt says she knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to withdraw the restraining order and seal Reinhardt's declaration was \"totally motivated\" by Ballard's own desire to protect his image, Bevins alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Long after we leave here today,\" Reinhardt said, \"I know that Nate will spend his life trying to spin yet another story, to destroy me, the children, and most likely anyone associated with this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the family law court may consider allowing Ballard to have contact with his two young children again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>Read Mara Reinhardt's full victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court on Aug. 19:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"victim-impact-statement-redacted (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you been or are you being harmed by domestic violence? Find help via these resources, in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://centerfordomesticpeace.org/\">Center for Domestic Peace\u003c/a>: Call their 24/7 English-Spanish hotline at (415) 924-6616. Shelter requests are handled via this number, as are appointments for legal advocacy services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roclinic.org/\">Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic\u003c/a>: CROC provides free legal services to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors: (415) 969-6711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fvlc.org/\">Family Violence Law Center\u003c/a>: Call (800) 947-8301 for legal services as well as 24-hour crisis intervention and support.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">La Casa de las Madres\u003c/a>: For support, resources and safety planning, call their 24/7 hotline at (877) 503-1850. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I haven't done is fill out any details,\" Perigo told KQED this week. \"I didn't talk to an officer at the hospital [or] give him Jon's name. And I don't want to cooperate with an investigation going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Perigo\"]'I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man. [Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.'[/pullquote]Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"sexual-assault, domestic-violence\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo did not reply to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (\u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAINN\u003c/a>) created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is 24/7, confidential and free: (800) 656-HOPE/(800) 656-4673\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bay Area Women Against Rape (\u003ca href=\"https://bawar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAWAR\u003c/a>) operates a 24-hour hotline in English and Spanish: (510) 345-1056\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ifrsf.org/mission_and_vision\">Instituto Familiar de la Raza\u003c/a> offers therapy and counseling in English and Spanish: (415) 229-0500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/advocacy/sexual-assault-prevention/\">The Women's Building's Sexual Assault & Harassment Prevention Project\u003c/a>: (415) 431-1180, ext. 20\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco will soon require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 to enter public indoor spaces including bars, restaurants and gyms, Mayor London Breed announced Thursday. The mandate also includes employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why we are doing this is to protect the workers, is to protect kids. It’s to protect those who can’t get vaccinated, to make sure that we don’t go backwards,” Breed said in a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the requirement goes into effect on Aug. 20, employees of businesses affected by the mandate will have until Oct. 13 to provide proof of full vaccination “to preserve jobs while giving time for compliance,” the mayor’s office wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the obvious public health benefits, Breed also said vaccinations were important to ensure the economy recovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have to do our part. We need to get vaccinated,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An overview of the main details of San Francisco’s new vaccine mandate\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mandate starts on Aug. 20.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879188/dont-have-your-california-digital-vaccine-card-yet-heres-how-to-get-it\">Proof of vaccination\u003c/a> will be needed to enter crowded businesses like bars, restaurants, clubs, gyms and theaters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Acceptable proof of vaccination includes your CDC vaccination card, a physical or digital copy or picture of that card, documentation from a health care provider, or a personal digital COVID-19 vaccine record issued by the state of California or by an approved private company.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Local business and merchant groups are largely supportive of the new requirements.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There are limited exceptions: People only need a mask to use a restroom at a business, for instance, and if a restaurant has a patio, proof of vaccination isn’t required for outdoor dining.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Businesses can ask for vaccine verification in advance and simply check ID upon entry.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read on for the full details of San Francisco’s new vaccine mandate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1425880490897076225\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You won’t need to brandish your vaccination card everywhere — city officials said the new rule applies only to businesses in “high-contact indoor sectors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean? Essentially the order applies to places with crowds: those that serve food or drinks like bars and restaurants, theaters and clubs, and fitness establishments like gyms. The mandate does not apply to food pickups for to-go orders, officials said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879188/dont-have-your-california-digital-vaccine-card-yet-heres-how-to-get-it\">Read more on how to get a digital version of your proof of vaccination\u003c/a> if you don’t already have a digital vaccine card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some exceptions to the proof of vaccination requirement. For instance, businesses may allow patrons to use outdoor areas without vaccination verification and may allow patrons wearing a well-fitted mask to use a restroom indoors without vaccination verification. Businesses that serve food or drinks to go may allow individuals wearing a well-fitted mask to order, pick up or pay for food or drink without vaccination verification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses also have the option to ask for verification in advance, as long as they confirm the patron’s identification when they enter the establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandate will be more stringent than the requirement announced by New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio last week. San Francisco will now require proof of full vaccination for all customers and staff, while New York mandated proof of at least one shot for similar indoor activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles is considering a similar move requiring people to have at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before going to indoor restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters and other venues. City leaders there voted Wednesday to direct city attorneys to work out the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘A bold step’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco just took “a bold step” to prevent the spread of the delta variant, said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of global health and infectious diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city and county of San Francisco don’t want to take any step backward in controlling this pandemic in the city,” Maldonado said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884606/newsom-mandates-covid-vaccines-or-regular-tests-for-all-california-teachers\">all employees at public and private schools in California will have to show proof of vaccination\u003c/a> or face weekly testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed announced the mandate at the historic Vesuvio Cafe in North Beach, a favorite haunt of the beat poets. The cafe has been asking indoor patrons to show proof of vaccination since July 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Bleiman, founder of the San Francisco Bar Owners Alliance, said the city’s restaurants and bars, which have already been voluntarily requiring proof of vaccination, say it’s a breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In actual practice, it actually was a little bit of a nothing burger,” Bleiman said. “If anything, almost every single person who walked through our doors that we’re hearing about was happy about it. They were thrilled, they were thankful. They felt safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus-resources-and-explainers']The San Francisco Independent Fitness Coalition, which represents more than 100 city fitness establishments, also said it supports the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalition board member Dave Karraker said in a statement, “We feel anything that can be done to avoid the capacity limits or the full shut down of indoor fitness that we experienced last year is in everyone’s best interest, particularly those small, neighborhood businesses that suffered so much since the start of the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new order also applies to large events at indoor venues and requires attendees age 12 and over at events numbering 1,000 or more to provide proof of vaccination. A negative COVID test is no longer the bar for attending these events — proof of full vaccination is a must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San Francisco health care providers not already subject to the state’s vaccination requirements will also now be required to show proof of vaccination. That includes workers at residential care facilities, adult day centers, and dental offices, as well as pharmacists and home health aides, according to city health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules are a response to the rise of the delta variant across the country, and locally. About 78% of San Franciscans are vaccinated, but the new surge shows a “need for additional measures to close the remaining gap of unvaccinated people,” the mayor’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now in a new phase of the pandemic,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, the city’s health director. “And even as we see a surge of cases, we have the powerful tool to fight this disease and to keep ourselves and each other safe. The vaccines, let’s use them”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MyrPressOffice/status/1425885296042811398\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after San Francisco city officials announced all 35,000 government employees are required to be vaccinated. More than 80% of employees already are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the city, however, roughly 200 employees pushed back on the city’s vaccination effort, sending in “conspiracy-tinged letters,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/In-conspiracy-tinged-letters-200-S-F-employees-16375674.php\">according to The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. The employees were mostly fire department workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press, KQED’s Nina Sparling and KQED’s Tara Siler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A collection of memorabilia saved from the closure of the much-beloved Cliff House restaurant in San Francisco has a new home — right back in the Cliff House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collection’s future wasn’t always certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the more than 150-year-old restaurant that’s perched above Ocean Beach closed last December, many in the Bay Area mourned. But when it was announced that the eclectic items kept at the restaurant would be sold at auction, the mood swung to alarm. What would happen to those precious pieces of San Francisco’s west side history?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864704/history-groups-successfully-save-cliff-house-art-collection-more-than-60-pieces-purchased-at-auction\">Historians, arts groups and everyday Bay Area folk stepped up to save more than 60 artifacts\u003c/a>, raising $180,000 to buy them from the Cliff House’s last operators, the Hountalas family, and showcase them so San Franciscans and people from across the bay can keep a piece of Cliff House history close to home. The collection includes artifacts from the Sutro Baths, an ocean-water swimming pool that once stood at Lands End.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pieces are now in the care of\u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/\"> the Western Neighborhoods Project\u003c/a>, a group dedicated to San Francisco’s west side history; Alexandra Mitchell of the \u003ca href=\"https://actartconservation.com/about-us\">ACT Art Conservation group\u003c/a>; and John Lindsey, director of The Great Highway Gallery. The items were on display in a small gallery on Balboa Street in the Richmond District (where they remain for now), because a larger space for them hadn’t been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-1536x870.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A totem pole commissioned by George K. Whitney, Jr., former owner of the Cliff House, which the Western Neighborhoods Project recently acquired at auction, in front of the Cliff House in 1960. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicole Meldahl, a historian and executive director of the Western Neighborhoods Project, told KQED the group signed the special-use permit to house the Cliff House collection in the Cliff House again. The collection will live in the former gift shop, starting in September or October and lasting through April 2022, courtesy of the National Park Service. She credited the NPS with going above and beyond to help secure the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED caught up with Meldahl to find out what the community can expect from the upcoming Cliff House pop-up exhibit and what the future holds for the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: Was this always a sure thing? Was there any uncertainty?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicole Meldahl\u003c/strong>: It always felt like a sure thing that we would go into the Cliff House because it felt so natural and right. But given that we were working with a federal agency, we didn’t want to announce this until things were certain, and our special-use permit was actually signed. So we just signed the special-use permit [last week] and the pop-up museum is a done deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A lot of people donated money to make this happen and were really pushing to see these artifacts saved. And you yourself are a historian with a special love for San Francisco west side history. How did it feel when you finally signed the permit this week?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I absolutely left my body, traveled up to the history god, who shook my hand. And then I traveled back down to earth when I signed the special-use permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884300\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, a luncheon menu for a banquet held at the Cliff House in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to San Francisco in May 1903. On the right, the Cliff House banquet room set for the visit, where the menu can be seen at each place setting. \u003ccite>(Image illustration by KQED, photos courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve had this collection housed on Balboa Street for a while. What would you say is the bonus of looking at it in the Cliff House itself?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, gosh, there really is no substitute for experiencing history in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re standing out by the cliff and you’re looking out over the ocean, and you feel that ocean breeze and you look at the Cliff House and then you pan to the right and see the ruins of the Sutro Baths, it’s sometimes hard to imagine what could have been here before, but we’ll be able to show you that. And we’ll be staffing the office with former National Park Service rangers and folks who are deeply connected to this part of San Francisco and this specific place. So we’ll be able to give you an experience that will be interactive and entertaining, but also educational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about a standout piece or two. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My favorites change in the collection all the time. But the fun pieces for me are ones where we can show you a photograph of them in situ, in the Cliff House, decades and decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for instance, we have a wonderful photograph on \u003ca href=\"http://OpenSFHistory.org\">our website\u003c/a> of what was called the [Sequoia] Room in the Cliff House in the 1930s. And there on the wall is a massive ship’s wheel with an etched mirror in the middle depicting two shipwrecks, and allegedly the wheel is from one of those shipwrecks. We’re still tracking down some of the stories connected to these pieces to verify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another one that I’m super in love with because I’m a total nerd for presidential history, is we have a presidential luncheon menu from when Teddy Roosevelt visited San Francisco in 1903. And it’s beautiful. It has a golden poppy on it. So it’s got deep, California relevance and some of the menu items are really funny, like the “essence of chicken,” because food was wild in 1903. But we also have a photograph [on our website] of the banquet hall set up for this luncheon. And you can see the individual menus at each setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s incredible to me that this thing is so rare. It’s connected to history that connects all the way throughout the country. And we have a photo of it! So it feels like these pieces are really coming home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884302\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, a ship’s wheel allegedly from the tanker vessel Frank H. Buck, which wrecked off Lands End in the 1930s. The ship’s wheel once hung in the Sequoia Room at the Cliff House, which can be seen in the photo on the right. \u003ccite>(Image illustration by KQED, photos courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You can track down some pieces using photos, but what other methods do you use to hunt down the history behind these pieces?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, you know, we \u003cem>are\u003c/em> trained historians here at Western Neighborhoods Project. But what’s been interesting specifically about the Cliff House history is we’re trying to separate lore from fact — especially with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/whitney-jr.php\">Whitney family, who owned and operated the Cliff House for many years\u003c/a>. They were wonderful salesmen who didn’t let the truth get in the way of a good marketing ploy. So we’re really trying to separate those. But at the same time, the stories are almost as interesting as the verifiable history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we hear these stories, we try a variety of things. We look through old newspapers to see if there’s any reference to them in there. We look through archival resources held by places like the San Francisco [Public] Library and\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library\"> the Bancroft [Library at UC Berkeley]\u003c/a>. We look through photos. Photos are such a wonderful resource to see change over time in any given place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a piece that we were able to save is this little stool that used to be in the Sutro Baths, and it’s stamped “A.S.” on the bottom of it for Adolph Sutro. And he actually acquired that stool from the 1894 Midwinter Fair that was staged in Golden Gate Park. He had a habit of just going to these auctions after major events and he would buy anything he could see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/podcast/WNP417_Sutro_the_Collector\">in one of your Outside Lands podcasts\u003c/a> that Adolph Sutro went to Egypt and bought a collection of books, and stamped them all with his initials, right? He did this all the time? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re remembering that correctly. And it’s funny — when we went down to see the auction pieces before it had gone off to get a bearing on what was there, I saw a little stool. I thought, “I know exactly what this is.” I walked over and I said, “Do you mind if I pick this up?” The auctioneer said, “Yes, no problem.” So I picked it up and I said, “Can you tell me if it’s stamped ‘A.S.’ on the bottom?” And John Lindsey went, “Oh, my God, it is.” And they looked at me like I was the most genius person on the face of the planet, which was hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, an original stool from the Sutro Baths that is stamped “A.S.” for Adolph Sutro underneath the seat. On the right, an image of similar stools in use at Sutro Baths. \u003ccite>(Image illustration by KQED, photos courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So this really is an ongoing, everlasting project that requires lots and lots of financial support. \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/Give\">So donations are appreciated.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So these will be in the Cliff House temporarily, but what does the future hold for these historical pieces?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now we have pieces on display\u003ca href=\"https://savethecliffhousecollection.com/\"> in our office and gallery at 1617 Balboa Street\u003c/a>, and of course, you’ve got the Cliff House pop-up coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/outsidelandz/status/1411400744889028610\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But really we have to send these pieces on the road after both of these exhibitions close, because one, we have a teeny-tiny office, because we’re a teeny-tiny nonprofit and we can’t afford to store these things permanently. And two, we want these pieces to be seen by the maximum number of people. So we want them to get out there and get on the road. So tell them to email me at \u003ca href=\"mailto:nicole@outsidelands.org\">nicole@outsidelands.org\u003c/a> if you have ideas on places for us to display these in the future.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/wnp27.0907-1536x870.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A totem pole commissioned by George K. Whitney, Jr., former owner of the Cliff House, which the Western Neighborhoods Project recently acquired at auction, in front of the Cliff House in 1960. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicole Meldahl, a historian and executive director of the Western Neighborhoods Project, told KQED the group signed the special-use permit to house the Cliff House collection in the Cliff House again. The collection will live in the former gift shop, starting in September or October and lasting through April 2022, courtesy of the National Park Service. She credited the NPS with going above and beyond to help secure the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED caught up with Meldahl to find out what the community can expect from the upcoming Cliff House pop-up exhibit and what the future holds for the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: Was this always a sure thing? Was there any uncertainty?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicole Meldahl\u003c/strong>: It always felt like a sure thing that we would go into the Cliff House because it felt so natural and right. But given that we were working with a federal agency, we didn’t want to announce this until things were certain, and our special-use permit was actually signed. So we just signed the special-use permit [last week] and the pop-up museum is a done deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A lot of people donated money to make this happen and were really pushing to see these artifacts saved. And you yourself are a historian with a special love for San Francisco west side history. How did it feel when you finally signed the permit this week?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I absolutely left my body, traveled up to the history god, who shook my hand. And then I traveled back down to earth when I signed the special-use permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884300\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split3_Menu-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, a luncheon menu for a banquet held at the Cliff House in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to San Francisco in May 1903. On the right, the Cliff House banquet room set for the visit, where the menu can be seen at each place setting. \u003ccite>(Image illustration by KQED, photos courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve had this collection housed on Balboa Street for a while. What would you say is the bonus of looking at it in the Cliff House itself?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, gosh, there really is no substitute for experiencing history in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re standing out by the cliff and you’re looking out over the ocean, and you feel that ocean breeze and you look at the Cliff House and then you pan to the right and see the ruins of the Sutro Baths, it’s sometimes hard to imagine what could have been here before, but we’ll be able to show you that. And we’ll be staffing the office with former National Park Service rangers and folks who are deeply connected to this part of San Francisco and this specific place. So we’ll be able to give you an experience that will be interactive and entertaining, but also educational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about a standout piece or two. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My favorites change in the collection all the time. But the fun pieces for me are ones where we can show you a photograph of them in situ, in the Cliff House, decades and decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for instance, we have a wonderful photograph on \u003ca href=\"http://OpenSFHistory.org\">our website\u003c/a> of what was called the [Sequoia] Room in the Cliff House in the 1930s. And there on the wall is a massive ship’s wheel with an etched mirror in the middle depicting two shipwrecks, and allegedly the wheel is from one of those shipwrecks. We’re still tracking down some of the stories connected to these pieces to verify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another one that I’m super in love with because I’m a total nerd for presidential history, is we have a presidential luncheon menu from when Teddy Roosevelt visited San Francisco in 1903. And it’s beautiful. It has a golden poppy on it. So it’s got deep, California relevance and some of the menu items are really funny, like the “essence of chicken,” because food was wild in 1903. But we also have a photograph [on our website] of the banquet hall set up for this luncheon. And you can see the individual menus at each setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s incredible to me that this thing is so rare. It’s connected to history that connects all the way throughout the country. And we have a photo of it! So it feels like these pieces are really coming home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884302\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/SplitWheel1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, a ship’s wheel allegedly from the tanker vessel Frank H. Buck, which wrecked off Lands End in the 1930s. The ship’s wheel once hung in the Sequoia Room at the Cliff House, which can be seen in the photo on the right. \u003ccite>(Image illustration by KQED, photos courtesy of the Western Neighborhoods Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You can track down some pieces using photos, but what other methods do you use to hunt down the history behind these pieces?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, you know, we \u003cem>are\u003c/em> trained historians here at Western Neighborhoods Project. But what’s been interesting specifically about the Cliff House history is we’re trying to separate lore from fact — especially with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/whitney-jr.php\">Whitney family, who owned and operated the Cliff House for many years\u003c/a>. They were wonderful salesmen who didn’t let the truth get in the way of a good marketing ploy. So we’re really trying to separate those. But at the same time, the stories are almost as interesting as the verifiable history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we hear these stories, we try a variety of things. We look through old newspapers to see if there’s any reference to them in there. We look through archival resources held by places like the San Francisco [Public] Library and\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library\"> the Bancroft [Library at UC Berkeley]\u003c/a>. We look through photos. Photos are such a wonderful resource to see change over time in any given place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a piece that we were able to save is this little stool that used to be in the Sutro Baths, and it’s stamped “A.S.” on the bottom of it for Adolph Sutro. And he actually acquired that stool from the 1894 Midwinter Fair that was staged in Golden Gate Park. He had a habit of just going to these auctions after major events and he would buy anything he could see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/podcast/WNP417_Sutro_the_Collector\">in one of your Outside Lands podcasts\u003c/a> that Adolph Sutro went to Egypt and bought a collection of books, and stamped them all with his initials, right? He did this all the time? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re remembering that correctly. And it’s funny — when we went down to see the auction pieces before it had gone off to get a bearing on what was there, I saw a little stool. I thought, “I know exactly what this is.” I walked over and I said, “Do you mind if I pick this up?” The auctioneer said, “Yes, no problem.” So I picked it up and I said, “Can you tell me if it’s stamped ‘A.S.’ on the bottom?” And John Lindsey went, “Oh, my God, it is.” And they looked at me like I was the most genius person on the face of the planet, which was hilarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11884301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Split2_Stool-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, an original stool from the Sutro Baths that is stamped “A.S.” for Adolph Sutro underneath the seat. 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He noted that more than 80% of vaccines have been administered in higher and upper-middle income countries, even though they account for less than half of the world’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. health agency has no power to require countries to act, and many nations during the pandemic have ignored its appeals to donate more vaccines and boost production in developing countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the delta variant,” Tedros said. “But we cannot and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it, while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]As of Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-vaccinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of San Francisco residents\u003c/a> have been fully vaccinated, a rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/distributing/about-vaccine-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">significantly higher than the national average\u003c/a>. Less than 10% of the nearly 665,000 fully vaccinated people in San Francisco got the J&J shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts point out that San Francisco has stockpiled a vaccine supply much greater than what the city’s population needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s plenty of vaccines,” said UCSF’s Kotis. “We’re not just swimming in vaccines in San Francisco, we’re drowning in a volume of vaccines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotis added that city health officials are now trying to get permission to send surplus vaccine doses to other countries. But to do so, the city needs permission from the federal government, a request that has not yet been approved, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could certainly be redirecting if the federal government would allow us to move this vaccine to other countries that need it,” Kotis said. “We’re very fortunate to be where we’re living. 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He feels the city isn’t doing enough to address the crisis and wants the mayor to implement\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/645609248/whats-the-evidence-that-supervised-drug-injection-sites-save-lives\"> safe consumption sites\u003c/a> where people can use drugs with safety monitoring by staffers to prevent death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The matter is legally thorny, and efforts at the state level to implement them has been met with setbacks; Wiener’s effort to pass SB 57, to allow some safe consumption sites, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/07/06/supervised-drug-sites-state-sen-scott-wiener-proposal-delayed-next-year/\">won’t be heard next among state lawmakers until 2022\u003c/a>. Breed’s office said they want to create safe consumption sites but there are legal concerns. 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